MoneySuperMarket analysed 2.7million UK home insurance claims over 12 months to come up with the list.

The website’s Kevin Pratt said: “Edinburgh postcodes dominate the top burglary claim hotspots in Scotland, with other high claim areas around Glasgow’s suburbs.

“Clearly, thieves target urban areas where there’s lots of activity to mask what they’re up to – but they also favour quiet areas where they can operate with less chance of being caught in the act.

“In short, they’ll go pretty much anywhere they think they can carry out their crime and get away with it, which means everyone needs to be conscious of the threat and make their home as safe and secure as possible.”

Newton Mearns ranked third in Scottish postcodes with the highest theft insurance claims. It wasn't always a 'leafy suburb' with a well-to-do population. Here's a look at the Southside town through the ages:

EH14 in Auld Reekie topped the list with 32.5 burglary claims per 1000 insurance quotes. That’s miles behind the UK’s No1 – Dagenham in Essex has a rate of 55 claims per 1000. Click here to see last year's figures.

The rest of the Scottish top 10 is made up of EH4, G13, G77, EH3, EH12, G53, G11, EH16 and EH11.

At the opposite end of the scale, Dundee’s DD2, Dumfries’s DG1 and rural G83 have the lowest proportion of burglary claims in the UK – a rate of zero per 1000.